Accident Which Caused Two Deaths in Calebasses

12 years, 4 months ago - 6 August 2012, The Défi Media Group
Accident Which Caused Two Deaths in Calebasses
Back on the scene Thursday morning to reconstruct the various steps in this car accident that took the lives of two people.

This is the July 15 tragedy that struck the village of Gourds. At dawn, an all-terrain made several rolls before it ended up on the side of the road. Alerted by the noise, many residents come to the rescue of the occupants of the vehicle. Fortunately, they are not injured.

But meanwhile, goes to a Porsche with the capital, on board, two young revelers who spent the night from Saturday to Sunday at a nightclub. According to one of them, a man named Thierry, aged 28, the speedometer did not exceed 120 km / h.

At Calebasses, the Porsche Cayman hit a group of pedestrians. The results are serious. Yan Vallet, 30, is killed instantly. He had come to rescue his two friends in difficulty in their off-road. Several other people were injured.

But the death toll mounts a week later. Leelawtee Sookye, 67, who was in intensive care, breathed his last. The policeman Pravesh Ghoorah, aged 23, was also seriously injured in the accident, still struggling between life and death in the ICU of the hospital in the North. One month after the accident, the young constable has not yet opened his eyes. Two injured, Jerome Gerard Marcel Koenig, 32, and Cedric Lincoln, 38, has, meanwhile, left the clinic this week after undergoing surgery.

The police investigation, led by Sergeant Doorga, progresses. Police also hands the blood test results performed on the young driver, Mitchel Pok Li Song, aged 25. Traces of alcohol have been confirmed in his blood ... or 11 mg of alcohol. A figure that is well below the rate needed to make a positive breath test.

This Thursday, Mitchel Pok Li Song and two witnesses, and Marcelino Placatoze Seewanand Roopchand, who had been injured in the accident, returned to the scene. In its complaint, the driver of the Porsche says that this time the floor was slippery and visibility poor. He therefore could not prevent people crossing the New Trunk Road in front of his car. The young driver has hired the lawyer Dick Ng Sui Wah.